The Last Movie You Watched?

[Abz88]

On holiday last week and had a week of watching movies every evening (wee one was sleeping so can't go out)

- Superbad (love this film)
- Hatchet (getting into the Halloween spirit with some comedy horror)
- 22 Jump Street
- The Cottage (an excellent British comedy horror with Reece Shearsmith (league of gentlemen), Andy Serkis (playing an actual person, no CGI, motion capture involved ) and Jennifer Ellison)
- Hubie Halloween (Adam Sandler "comedy" horror, I didn't pick it...but it wasn't as bad as I expected)
- The Babysitter: Killer Queen (another comedy horror...starting to see a trend here...)
- Moana (one for the wee one, fortunately it has some catchy songs)

 

[Billski]

Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1936. One of the Best Movies ever.
It is now on YouTube, about 100 minutes.
It will help everyone feel good.

 

[TinyT]

- The Cottage (an excellent British comedy horror with Reece Shearsmith (league of gentlemen), Andy Serkis (playing an actual person, no CGI, motion capture involved ) and Jennifer Ellison)

That's a good film. Also by the same director, Cherry Tree Lane. No comedy in this one. It is dark.

 

[emwolf]

Just re-watched one of my all time favorites, After The Fox from 1966? It's Peter Sellers as an international thief smuggling gold in a unique way. Great supporting cast, script by Neil Simon, directed by the great De Sica, music by Burt Bacharach, title sung by The Hollies, it's the pinnacle of the swinging 60's.

 

[Doc4]

The Shop Around the Corner

 

[Abz88]

That's a good film. Also by the same director, Cherry Tree Lane. No comedy in this one. It is dark.

Thanks, will try and get hold of it.

 

[TinyT]

Thanks, will try and get hold of it.

It's well worth tracking down. The acting, by a mostly little known cast, is very convincing.

 

[DrStrange]

Just re-watched one of my all time favorites, After The Fox from 1966? It's Peter Sellers as an international thief smuggling gold in a unique way. Great supporting cast, script by Neil Simon, directed by the great De Sica, music by Burt Bacharach, title sung by The Hollies, it's the pinnacle of the swinging 60's.

Peter Sellers,

Great supporting cast,

music,

the pinnacle of the swinging 60's

That is The Magic Christian:

The Magic Christian (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese,
Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee,
Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski

Songs by Badfinger, including one written by Paul McCartney

The Magic Christian received mostly negative reviews on release
with its unrelenting and heavy-handed satire on capitalism, greed and human vanities.

I almost forgot,
the absolutely most memorable rendition ever of Hamlet's soliloquy
is by Laurence Harvey, done as a striptease .

 

[emwolf]

Peter Sellers,

Great supporting cast,

music,

the pinnacle of the swinging 60's

That is The Magic Christian:

The Magic Christian (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese,
Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee,
Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski

Songs by Badfinger, including one written by Paul McCartney

The Magic Christian received mostly negative reviews on release
with its unrelenting and heavy-handed satire on capitalism, greed and human vanities.

I almost forgot,
the absolutely most memorable rendition ever of Hamlet's soliloquy
is by Laurence Harvey, done as a striptease .

MC is more psychedelic, but ATF is funnier.

 

[Jmp63]

The Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman. Fantastic movie!

 

[Davidkimberly]

The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

[Abz88]

I See You. Thriller staring Helen Hunt and Jon Tenney with some interesting twists too it.

 

[shoelessjoe]

Chazz Palmenteri’s, A Bronx Tale - an excellent movie from back when I still cared to watch DeNiro.
Favorite scene ... City Island; Wasted Talent & Flamenco Sketches:

 

[TinyT]

an excellent movie from back when I still cared to watch DeNiro.

He's been in a few clankers since then, lol. I've liked his performances in David O. Russells films though.

 

[cryhavoc]

Wargames- That movie holds up pretty well and SWMBO and I enjoyed watching it again.

 

[TinyT]

Baywatch (2017). No where near as bad as I was expecting. In fact, I though it was well made, knowingly self referential and quite funny. I'm turning into kind of a fan of The Rock. I liked him in Pain and Gain too, a bad film but there was something about it I liked.

Last night, Beauty and the Dogs, maybe the first Tunisian film I've seen. Very, very good. Based on real events, it's about a young womans fight for justice in a new, yet still corrupt emerging democracy.

 

[emwolf]

Kid Detective. A surprisingly twisty cross between Encyclopedia Brown and The Big Sleep.

 

[ajkel64]

A semi sci fi movie from 1958 called "Escapement" starring Rod Cameron and Mary Murphy.

 

[Benzadmiral]

My Man Godfrey from 1936, with William Powell and the astonishing Carole Lombard. It's usually called a "screwball" comedy, as it's from that period (think Bringing Up Baby w/ Cary Grant), but the situation is not too screwball-ish. The Fifth Avenue upper-crust family for whom Powell's Godfrey goes to work as their butler is pretty weird, however, and the father (raspy-voiced Eugene Pallette) even says so. But Godfrey not only learns something important about his life, he touches the lives of the Bullock family in ways he and they don't expect. More witty than laugh-out-loud funny, it is great -- a fine example of how well Hollywood could do a film during the first decade of the talkies.

Trivia: Powell and Carole had been divorced for three years at this point. The studio wanted Joan Bennett to play the lead opposite him, but he said firmly, "No. Carole is the only one." They remained friends until she died in that untimely plane crash in '42. (Powell, boy, he got around. At one point he was engaged to Jean Harlow, the Marilyn Monroe of her day.)

 

[Abz88]

Baywatch (2017). No where near as bad as I was expecting. In fact, I though it was well made, knowingly self referential and quite funny. I'm turning into kind of a fan of The Rock. I liked him in Pain and Gain too, a bad film but there was something about it I liked.

I liked Baywatch as well, its a good comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously and was well cast.